Re: Using AS to set MENU resource entries
Re: Using AS to set MENU resource entries
- Subject: Re: Using AS to set MENU resource entries
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:59:26 -0800
Did you try Smile, and the Satimage osax (which has powerful resource
commands too)? I've never attempted this sort of thing, but I believe that
Smile can do all that. It builds its own menus with AS, after all. And Smile
is free; you can distribute it with your script if need be.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 01:42:49 -0500
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To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
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Subject: Using AS to set MENU resource entries
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Hey all.
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I wrote recently (and got some great assists) regarding setting the STR#
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resource indices via AS. That is all working swimmingly now.
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My difficulty now is that the MENU resource doesn't have numbered indices
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(that I know). I have tried using the actual count of the menu item, from
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top to bottom, like an index value (tried starting at 0 and starting at 1)
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but that's not cutting it.
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I've also tried reading the resource as a whole, using Tanaka's. That does
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return a value, and I can coerce it to text, but it's delimited by a variety
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of gremlins. Not usable. (I thought I could just read the whole resource,
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replace list items with user entries via AS and then re-write the whole
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deal. No go.)
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I want to take user input from an ask dialog, and then insert that as the
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menu text.
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As you know, the MENU/mctb resources open in ResEdit as a picture of the
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menu, with each item able to be changed by editing its name in a text box on
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the right side of the resource template.
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I have searched the web and found plenty of mac programming references to
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setting MENU strings, but it's all low-level C stuff, which is not what I
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need.
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I know this is stretching the list topic a bit, but if you have any clue as
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to how to get my AS user-supplied menu item string into the MENU/mctb
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resource, that'd be great.
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So as not to irritate those who feel this is a bit "off topic", please reply
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directly if you wish, to "email@hidden", but you must start your
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subject with "notjunk:" so it doesn't get auto-deleted.
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Thanks a 10^6.
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Gary
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